The Lord

Now I would think that most of my readers would be white hat (if you are BH, sorry to disappoint!), I am going to assume the white hat position (sidenote/would it not be slightly bent over?) that you want to be really careful about what Google and others think of your website. But.. how are you to rank without buying links? Believe it or not there are flaws in the Google ‘don’t buy links’ FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) that you could drive a fleet of Mack trucks through sideways. It’s just such a stupid statement!

1/ Can you detect a good ontopic paid link?
2/ How do you pass web traffic without links?
3/ How can Google monitor this activity?

Above is a simple set of questions that throw most of the Google FUD into a small tail spin. #1 unless you saw money exchange hands you’d be hard pressed to assume anything ontopic was paid. #2 how can you increase a websites exposure without buying more web traffic at some stage? It’s common practice to buy links (aka Web Traffic) - good luck doing this without *not* buying some form of link (you own/webmaster the site, not Google) #3 Google have NO scalable means of detacting Paid Links via automated methods for ontopic links that would survive even a human review. (Nor are they about to develop one, short of pay a network of snitches that would know less than a Google engineer doing hand reviews).

The #1 rule is don’t make Google look stupid. Only buy paid links that garner real visitors that become customers or users of your products. Keep it Ontopic. The #2 rule would be that you are not going to rank without links! All the content in the world will not get you the rankings you’d want!

Next linking post: I will do a beginners guide to buying links and not blowing your (or client’s) a$$ off. Might help a lot of people.

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